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CASE-ing the Catty - Favourite Annual Catty Project

April 28, 2024

Hi there

Welcome to CASE-ing the Catty for this week.

Wow, it's our last CASE from the 2023-2024 Annual Catalogue! Next week we will be starting on the brand new 2024-2025 Annual Catalogue that goes LIVE to customers on 1st May, 2024. I cannot believe how quickly this year is speeding past and it is only 7 weeks until we leave for our overseas trip to Scandanavia.

If you've come from visiting Lauren, then welcome! If you're visiting me, I appreciate you stopping by today! You can continue your journey to see the other inspiring creations from the CTC Crew by clicking on the button at the bottom of the post.

This week we are taking inspiration from our favourite project from the 2023-2024 Annual Catalogue. There are so many great samples to choose from and I've CASE-d many of my favourites. However, I love this page (below) from the Annual Catalogue showing samples for the Masterfully Made Suite.

I think the Masterfully Made Designer Series Paper is amazing. I love all of the colours in the paper and as I'm a pink fan, the Berry Burst and Fresh Freesia designs are winners for me. The paper is now in the Last Chance Sale, so you can get it for $10.87AUD, which is close to a 50% discount. I've already CASE-d the layout of the card at the top in this post here, for cards for new team members, so I decided to focus on the Berry Burst project at the top right in the photo above.

I decided on Fresh Freesia for my card base, which is a colour in the paper and cut another piece slightly smaller. I like the interest this extra layer adds, but the other advantage is that if you make a mistake or don't like your stamping, you can turn it over and start again! I stamped off the text in from the Quiet Meadow stamp set at the bottom and top corners using Fresh Freesia ink, which looks quite faint in the photo, but I just wanted a subtle hint in the background. The foliage spray from the Gorgeously Made Dies was cropped twice from Fresh Freesia card stock and I adhered them with tape across the stems. You can also add Adhesive Sheet to the reverse of the card stock but I wanted a more free flowing look.

I added the piece of patterned paper from Masterfully Made to a piece of Fresh Freesia card stock to make it more robust for the 'lumpy' surface it was being adhered to. The white banner was cropped with a die from the Nested Essentials Dies, and I extended it to be a little longer. The second banner is the reverse side of the floral paper. Inspired by the paper, I created a shabby chic flower by tearing Berry Burst card stock and rolling it up and squishing it a little and adhered it at the top of the banners. I finished with a flowing bow from (retired) Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon under it and a trio of silver pearls from the new Basic Gray & Smoky Slate Pearls. The birthday greeting from the Go To Greetings stamp set was stamped in Berry Burst ink, fussy cut and popped up.

For the inside, I have a Basic White writing panel and I've used the spiral look die from the Gorgeously Made Dies at the top which gives it the look of being torn from a notebook. At the base I have stamped off the text and adhered part of the foliage spray under a strip of the designer paper.

This card isn't one for a standard envelope, but it's worth it for something a little different, don't you think?

Project Details
Stamps	Go To Greetings, Quiet Meadow
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Berry Burst, Fresh Freesia, Masterfully Made DSP
Ink	Fresh Freesia, Berry Burst
Accessories	Basic Gray & Smoky Slate Pearls, Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon (retired)
*Tools*	Gorgeously Made Dies, Nested Essentials Dies, Stampin' Cut & Emboss, Dimensionals, Glue Dots

We would love to see your CASE of a favourite project from the 2023-24 Annual Catalogue this week. Click on this link or the image below to go there. The first time you will need to click on the 'Join Group' button at the top. Once you have been added to the group, you can go ahead and post your creation and you do not need to have a blog.

You can head over to the Julia to see her lovely project and follow the hop to see the inspiration from the rest of the CTC Crew.

Thanks for visiting today!

Posted at 06:55 PM in CASE-ing The Catty, Feminine, Nature/Floral | Permalink | Comments (0)

CASE-ing the Catty - Sale-a-Bration 2025

January 12, 2025

Hi there

Welcome to CASE-ing the Catty for this week.

The brand new 2025 January - April Mini Catalogue is now LIVE, together with the annual Sale-a-Bration promotion. In the Stampin' Up! terms this is the most wonderful time of the year because during Sale-a-Bration you get FREE product when you shop! Sale-a-bration commenced on 7 January and runs until 28 February 2025. Click on the image to see the FREE product offerings you can choose from.

During Sale-a-Bration you can:

Earn FREE product when you place orders over $100 AUD (before postage) in one transaction. You will receive FREE product for each additional $100 you spend in a single order as well.
An additional bonus is an extra $50 AUD in Stampin’ Rewards (which makes it $110 AUD all up) when an order reaches over $500 AUD (before postage). You still receive upto 5 FREE product gifts of your choice from the Sale-a-Bration brochure as well. You can host an online or in person party, combine orders with friends or simply shop your Wish List to achieve this total.

There are two levels of gifts available:

If you spend $100 in one transaction (or multiples of), you can choose one of the Level 1 gifts of which there are 10 choices.
If you spend $200 in one transaction, there are three Level 2 gifts to choose from (or you can choose 2 of the level 1 choices instead).
You can claim your FREE gifts when you view your cart, prior to check out.

If you've come from visiting Rochelle, then welcome! If you're visiting me, I appreciate you stopping by today! You can continue your journey to see the other inspiring creations from the CTC Crew by clicking on the button at the bottom of the post.

This week we're CASE-ing projects from the Sale-a-Bration catalogue and I want to show you some of the fabulous choices available.

This is the sample (above) from page 13 of the Sale-a-Bration Brochure that I chose for my inspiration today. It's a simple layout using the pretty Heart Shaped Bundle, which is one of your Level 2 choices (requires an order of $200 AUD or more before shipping).

For my version, I chose a Petunia Pop card base to start with and the pretty Petunia Pop floral design from the Bloom Impression 12 x 12 Designer Series Paper that is a Level 1 option (requires an order total of $100 AUD or more before shipping). I added a tiny border of white so it would pop from the background.

I chose to use the largest pierced circle from the Stylish Shapes dies to host the vine heart and I added a little soft ink blending with Fresh Freesia ink to soften the background. The vine heart shape was cropped from Blackberry Bliss card stock to coordinate with the darkest of the little flowers in the paper and adhered it to the circle. I cropped 3 of the little flowers, also from the Heart Shaped Dies to create a cluster around the greeting as well as the flower and foliage sprigs from Basic White. This flower is the perfect size for little embellishments and the extra detail in the petals is lovely. The greeting is from the Spring Corners stamp set, a new one from the January - April Mini Catalogue, stamped in Petunia Pop ink and cropped with the label die that is also from the Heart Shaped Dies. I finished with a bow using the gorgeous soft Fresh Freesia 3/8" Seam Binding Ribbon (a Level 1 option from page 9 of the brochure) and the smaller Drusy Adhesive-Backed Embellishments in the centre of the flowers for a bright pop of bling.

Project Details
Stamps	Spring Corners
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Petunia Pop, Blackberry Bliss, Bloom Impressions 12 x 12 DSP
Ink	Fresh Freesia, Petunia Pop
Accessories	Fresh Freesia 3/8"Seam Binding Ribbon, Drusy Adhesive-Backed Embellishments
Tools	Stylish Shapes Dies, Heart Shaped Dies, Stampin' Cut & Emboss, Dimensionals, Glue Dots

We would love to see your CASE from the 2025 Sale-a-Bration Brochure this week. Click on this link or the image below to go there. The first time you will need to click on the 'Join Group' button at the top. Once you have been added to the group, you can go ahead and post your creation and you do not need to have a blog.

You can head over to Julia to see her lovely project and follow the hop to see the inspiration from the rest of the CTC Crew.

Thanks for visiting today!

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CASE-ing the Catty - New Mini Catty!

January 05, 2025

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Happy New Year and welcome back to CASE-ing the Catty for 2025!

The brand new 2025 January - April Mini Catalogue goes live on Tuesday 7 January together with the annual Sale-a-bration promotion. I look forward to sharing lots of the fun new products with you over the next few months. If you are in Australia and do not already have an active Demonstrator, I'd love to send you a complimentary copy of the new Mini Catalogue and Sale-a-bration brochure. You can fill in your mailing details over on my Contact Me page.

If you've come from visiting Kathryn, then welcome! If you're visiting me, I appreciate you stopping by today! You can continue your journey to see the other inspiring creations from the CTC Crew by clicking on the button at the bottom of the post.

Because the Mini Catalogue is not LIVE to customers yet, we can only show you the front cover, which you can see in the photo above. So tonight, I'm taking my inspiration from the gorgeous products from the Wildflower Birthday Suite, which is on pages 42-45 of the Mini Catalogue if you have your own copy already. After creating with holiday products for the past months, the soft, pretty colours in this suite are such a breath of fresh air.

I've taken the basic layout from the project on the front cover (which I think is a box) to create my card. I started with a Basic White card base and chose one of the floral designs from the Wildflower Birthday 12 x 12 Specialty Designer Series Paper with gold accents for the background. I added a tiny border of Pretty in Pink to help it pop from the white background.

On the reverse side of the floral design is the sweet Pretty In Pink gingham design. How often does it happen that your favourite designs are back to back? It seems to happen often for me and makes it SO hard as you always use them up quickly! I have added a mat of Basic White for the gingham panel with a tiny border and adhered it on a angle. The pierced border pocket shape is cropped from Basic White with the Birthday Celebration Dies and I popped it up on the gingham panel.

The Wildflower Birthday Speciality DSP has a sheet of coordinating pre-cut images that you can pop out for super quick embellishments on your projects. I have popped up the banner across the panels and used a variety of the floral elements to embellish the bottom corner of the pocket. Under the floral elements I have used some ofthe Gold 1 1/2" Open Weave Trim to add some texture. I have a cut a piece of the trim in half to create separate pieces that make it a little easier to place. The greeting from the Birthday Celebration stamp set was stamped in Blueberry Bushel ink and then fussy cut and popped up. I finished the front with a few of the coordinating Party Dots.

I have used a leftover strip from the front of the card to create a border for the writing panel on the inside of the card. Another greeting from the Birthday Celebration stamp set was stamped in Blueberry Bushel ink in the centre and I added the pre-cut cupcake and flower embellishment in the corner to finish.

Project Details
Stamps	Birthday Celebration
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Pretty in Pink, Wildflower Birthday Specialty DSP
Ink	Blueberry Bushel
Accessories	gold 1 1/2" Open Weave Trim, Party Dots
Tools	Birthday Celebration Dies, Stampin' Cut & Emboss, Dimensionals

We would love to see your CASE of the front cover of the 2024 January - April Mini Catalogue this week. Click on this link or the image below to go there. The first time you will need to click on the 'Join Group' button at the top. Once you have been added to the group, you can go ahead and post your creation and you do not need to have a blog.

You can head over to Julia to see her lovely project and follow the hop to see the inspiration from the rest of the CTC Crew.

Thanks for visiting today!

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CASE-ing the Catty - Celebrating 500 Challenges!

December 15, 2024

Hi there

Welcome to CASE-ing the Catty for this week.

We have an absolutely huge hop for you this week, as we celebrate 500 challenges! I joined the Crew in 2015 at about #37 ( I wasn't so methodical with my numbering back then!) and I've still enjoy the challenge, even when it takes me out of my comfort zone! We have lots of past Crew joining us this week, so make sure you settle in with a cuppa and enjoy all the creative inspiration.

If you've come from visiting Monique, then welcome! If you're visiting me, I appreciate you stopping by today! You can continue your journey to see the other inspiring creations from the CTC Crew by clicking on the button at the bottom of the post.

For our 500th hop and the last for this year, we are CASE-ing a project of our choice from either the 2024 September-December Mini Catalogue or the 2024-2025 Annual Catalogue. Wow, that makes for a huge choice! I'm still madly trying to make a few more Christmas cards, so I decided to use up some patterned paper that I have left.

I have a 6" x 12" piece of the pretty candy cane border design from the Sentimental Christmas DSP pack that I have been holding onto, so with inspiration from the project above, I turned it into 3 cards.

I wanted to give my cards a bit more pop, so I've chosen some complementary background designs from the Take A Bow DSP pack. This pack has been a workhorse for me this year, as it goes so well with quite a few of the patterned papers. The good news it is staying around for a while longer.

This is the first card I made with the candy cane border on the left. I covered the Basic White card base with the Garden Green & Granny Apple Green spotty design paper and added a Basic White mat to the piece of candy cane paper. The Real Red ribbon was tied vertically around the panel and finished with a bow at the top. I stamped the greeting from the Peaceful Season stamp set in Garden Green and cropped it with the smallest of the Countryside Corners Dies. I popped up the greeting over the ribbon and then popped up the entire panel onto the card base. I finished with some gold adhesive-backed sequins.

For the next card, I've used the straight section of the border in a landscape format card. I've gone with a wider border this time of the candy cane stripe from the Take A Bow DSP, as I needed to leave enough of the candy cane border paper for the 3rd card. I added the Basic White mat and popped up the centre panel and added the Real Red bow to the candy cane. The greetings are both from the Peaceful Season Bundle with the die cut Christmas from Garden Green card stock on the Basic White background. The second greeting was heat embossed in white on Real Red card stock and cropped with a (retired) Stitched Rectangle Die and then popped up.

For the final card, I've used the off-cut of the Garden Green spotty paper to create a border on each side of a Basic White card base. The Basic White border was added to the edges of the candy cane paper and I decided to stamp the greeting from the Peaceful Season stamp set directly onto the DSP before adhering the panel flat to the card base. The Real Red ribbon was tied around the top and finished with a bow. The Merry Christmas from the Reindeer Fun stamp set was heat embossed in white on Real Red card stock and cropped with the banner die from the Stylish Shapes Dies (cutting twice to get the length) and popped up. I finished with some gold adhesive-backed sequins.

Project Details
Stamps	Reindeer Fun, Peaceful Seasons
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Real Red, Garden Green, Sentimental Christmas DSP, Take A Bow DSP
Ink	Versamark, Real Red, Garden Green
Accessories	Real Red & Garden Garden Green Faux Linen Ribbon (retired), Neutrals Adhesive-Backed Sequins, Real Red & White Adhesive-Backed Peppermints
Tools	Stylish Shapes Dies, Peaceful Season Dies, Countryside Corners Dies, Stitched Rectangle Framelits (retired), Stampin' Cut & Emboss, Dimensionals, White EP, Heat Tool

We would love to see your CASE of a project from either the 2024 Sep-Dec Mini Catalogue or the 2024-2025 Annual Catalogue this week. Click on this link or the image below to go there. The first time you will need to click on the 'Join Group' button at the top. Once you have been added to the group, you can go ahead and post your creation and you do not need to have a blog.

You can head over to Julia to see her lovely project and follow the hop to see the inspiration from the rest of the CTC Crew.

Thanks for visiting today!

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CASEing the Catty - More Reindeer Fun

December 08, 2024

Hi there

Welcome to CASE-ing the Catty for this week. It has been 5 long weeks since I have been able to participate and my mojo is feeling very rusty! I've just returned from a month long visit to Western Australia to sort and pack my Mum's house so her hubby could move into an independent living unit on the same campus where she is in residential care. Wow, what a huge job, even bigger than I originally thought. I'm going to have a goal to go through my cupboards annually, to weed out the stuff that isn't needed anymore!

If you've come from visiting Peta & Marvi, then welcome! If you're visiting me, I appreciate you stopping by today! You can continue your journey to see the other inspiring creations from the CTC Crew by clicking on the button at the bottom of the post.

This week we are CASE-ing a background in a project from either of the current calalogues. There are so many options for creating a background on your card and whatever option you choose will step up your card another notch.

I've chosen the project in the photo above for my inspiration, which uses repetitive stamping to create the background behind the foliage frame. There are a few samples of this technique in the catalogues you can check out.

I started by stamping the background panel with the greeting stamp from the Reindeer Fun Bundle. I found that putting a piece of grid paper behind the Basic White card stock and adhering it temporarily, helped me to line up the lines of text. Start off the page and then fill the line and start in a different position on the next line to create the variation.

For the front layer, I have used a design from the Take A Bow DSP and cut the foliage frame using the die from the Reindeer Fun Bundle. The stamped panel was adhered behind the opening and I added the fussy cut reindeer and holly embellishments. The complimentary greeting from the Reindeer Fun stamp set was stamped onto a strip of Basic White and adhered under the fussy cut reindeer to ground it. I used the retired Scalloped Contours Dies to create the sweet scalloped border under the greeting. The finished panel was adhered to the Real Red card base with a narrow border. The Real Red satin bow and some cute Real Red & White Adhesive-Backed Peppermints were the finishing touch.

For the inside, I have a Granny Apple Green mat for the writing panel and I added a strip of the green design across the bottom. I fussy cut the partial reindeer image and adhered it on the left.

Project Details
Stamps	Reindeer Fun
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Real Red, Granny Apple Green, Festive Glimmer Paper, Reindeer Days DSP
Ink	Real Red
Accessories	Real Red & White Adhesive-Backed Peppermints, Real Red Satin Ribbon (retired)
Tools	Reindeer Fun Dies, Scalloped Contour Dies (retired), Stampin' Cut & Emboss, Dimensionals, 3/16" punch (not SU)

We would love to see your CASE of a background from a project from either the 2024 Sep-Dec Mini Catalogue or the 2024-25 Annual Catalogue this week. Click on this link or the image below to go there. The first time you will need to click on the 'Join Group' button at the top. Once you have been added to the group, you can go ahead and post your creation and you do not need to have a blog.

You can head over to Rochelle to see her lovely project and follow the hop to see the inspiration from the rest of the CTC Crew.

I hope you'll join us for our 500th CASE-ing the Catty Blog Hop next week and our last for the year.

Thanks for visiting today!

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CASE-ing the Catty - Sentimental Christmas

October 27, 2024

Hi there

Welcome to CASE-ing the Catty for this week.

This week we are taking our inspiration from the Sentimental Christmas Suite on page 28 of the 2024 September-December Mini Catalogue. The imagery in this suite is reminiscent of Victorian times with soft tones and fine details. The Sentimental Christmas Designer Series Paper is the Stampin' Up! Product Giveback product this holiday season. For each pack of the paper that is purchased in Australia, $4.25AUD will be donated to support children's literacy in Australia. This is a really worthwhile cause, as I'm sure you would agree.

I've chosen the project in the photo above for my inspiration, which is a gift box using the gorgeous deer design from the Sentimental Christmas paper pack. I've taken the layout from this project and turned it into a card.

I started with the Christmas tree design from the Sentimental Christmas Designer Paper which has a lot of blue in it, although there isn't a blue listed in the coordinating colours. I chose Azure Afternoon to create a tiny border around the panel of paper before adding the vertical strip of Cherry Cobbler & Gold 1/4" Satin Ribbon down the left side. I tied the ribbon around the panel horizontally and finished with the bow over the top. I have used other Cherry Cobbler accents as I think it adds a richness to the olde world design. I popped up the panel onto a Basic Beige side opening card base.

For the tag, I did a wash with Azure Afternoon ink onto watercolour paper and then cropped the panel with the tag die from the Something Fancy Dies. The gold foliage was cropped with a die from the Unbounded Beauty Dies and Gold Foil. The predominant green in the patterned paper is Old Olive, but I wanted a lighter tone, so I ink blended a panel of Basic White and used the die from Winterly Tree Tops to crop the pine fronds. The foliage was arranged on the tag with the greeting from the Peaceful Seasons stamp set popped up in the middle and I added some Cherry Cobbler berries. The tag was attached under the ribbon with Linen Thread and adhered to the card at the base. I finished with some sparkly champagne Drusy Adhesive-Backed Embellishments.

For the inside, I have a strip of the patterned paper down the left side of the Azure Afternoon mat and I have stamped the greeting from the Reindeer Fun stamp set on the writing panel on the right.

Project Details
Stamps	Reindeer Fun, Peaceful Seasons
Card stock & Papers	Basic Beige, Azure Afternoon, Basic White, Sentimental Christmas DSP, Gold Foil, Watercolour Paper
Ink	Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive, Azure Afternoon
Accessories	Cherry Cobbler & Gold 1/4" Satin Ribbon, Drusy Adhesive-Backed Embellishments, Linen Thread, Cherry Cobbler & Pearl Adhesive-Backed Berries
Tools	Stylish Shapes Dies, Something Fancy Dies, Winterly Tree Tops Dies, Unbounded Beauty Dies, Stampin' Cut & Emboss, Dimensionals, Water Painter,

We would love to see your CASE of a Sentimental Christmas project from page 28 of the 2024 Sep-Dec Mini Catalogue this week. Click on this link or the image below to go there. The first time you will need to click on the 'Join Group' button at the top. Once you have been added to the group, you can go ahead and post your creation and you do not need to have a blog.

You can head over to Rochelle to see her lovely project and follow the hop to see the inspiration from the rest of the CTC Crew.

Thanks for visiting today!

Posted at 06:55 PM in CASE-ing The Catty, Christmas | Permalink | Comments (1)

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Hi, I'm Judy May and I live in Toowoomba, Queensland with my husband. I love Stampin' Up!® paper, stamps and ink and using them to make beautiful projects. Let me be your creative coach and inspire you to bring the joy of creativity to your life!